For just five days in June 2011, diners in Estonias cultural capital, Tallinn, can enjoy Champagne, aperitifs, lunch or dinner 50 metres in the air with spectacular views over the medieval Old Town, Tallinns steel and glass business sector and the Bay of Finland.
Suite name: The Presidential Suite
Hotel: Dan Tel Aviv Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
Size of accommodation: 1,378 sq ft
Cost per night: $1,420
Who’s stayed there? Madonna
What makes it special? The long, private terrace with a beautiful view of the sea and the old city of Jaffa.
Courchevel 1850 has long been the St Tropez of the French Alps; this high altitude resort ensures a long snow sure season and is the most famous of all the resorts within the vast Three Valleys ski area. However it isnt just the skiing which has turned this into a world renowned resort – the shopping, bars and restaurants are first class.
Atlantis, The Palm is a hotel and resort that we first mentioned on A Luxury Travel Blog back in 2007 when the area was still a construction site. It opened at the back end of the following year to a lavish $35 million party and incredible $1.5 billion firework display. Now, almost three years on, the 1,539 room hotel is of course more than just an established Dubai hotel. It’s an ocean-themed destination resort at the heart of one of Dubai’s most prestigious developments – Palm Island in Dubai. It covers an area of 46 hectares (17 of which make up the resort’s own water park) and includes an entertainment centre, boutique shops, convention facilities and dining options backed by the likes of Nobu, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang, not to mention one of the largest open-air marine habitats in the world, with some 65,000 marine animals in lagoons and displays including The Lost Chambers, a maze of underwater corridors and passageways providing a journey through ancient Atlantis.
It doesnt take much research to get an overwhelmingly positive sense of the Maldives. In fact, typical reviews from holiday-goers are so loaded with superlatives, you can be left wondering if every word written on the internet was commissioned by the state tourism department. But they werent its just that most people who visit return with the honest opinion that it really is the tropical paradise they had always imagined, the stuff of dreams.
